[TAG] DirectPad Joystick

[Triyan W. Nugroho]

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 10:04, you wrote:
> > root at devel:/home/i2c# modprobe joydev
> > root at devel:/home/i2c# modprobe gamecon
>
> Could you try instead:
>  modprobe gamecon map=0,1
>
> Looking in ./drivers/input/joystick/gamecon.c
> it seems it needs the parallel port number and
> the pad number. I'm guessing that would be
> counting from 1, but maybe it should be map=0,0
>
> module_param_array_named(map, gc, int, &gc_nargs, 0);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(map, "Describers first set of devices
> (<parport#>,<pad1>,<pad2>,..<pad5>)");

Solved!

First I had to remove lp module. I also stopped CUPS services because my 
printer is connected via parallel port.

In 2.4 kernel, I try:
#modprobe gamecon gc=0,7

where 0 means parallel port 0, and 7 means that it is a Playstation joystick. 

When I tried to play xgalaga using my joystick, the ships did some strange 
movement. Maybe it still need some configuration or it's a bug in the kernel 
(the documentation in 2.4 kernel says that support for Playstation joystick 
is still under development).

But I'm quite happy to see that my Linux box is now more fun with joystick 
support :)

I haven't had time to try this on 2.6 kernel. Anyway thanks very much for the 
help :)


--Triyan.